Week Ending March 3, 2024

Developer News

All CI jobs must be on K8s community infra as of yesterday. While the infra team will migrate ones that are simple, other jobs that you don’t help them move may be deleted. Update your jobs now.

Monitoring dashboards for the GKE and EKS build clusters are live. Also, there was an outage in EKS jobs last week.

After a year of work led by Tim Hockin, Go Workspaces support for hacking on Kubernetes is now available, eliminating a lot of GOPATH pain.

It’s time to start working on your SIG Annual Reports, which you should find a lot shorter and easier than previous years. Note that you don’t have to be the SIG Chair to do these, they just have to review them.

Release Schedule

Next Deadline: Test Freeze, March 27th

Code Freeze is now in effect. If your KEP did not get tracked and you want to get your KEP shipped in the 1.30 release, please file an exception as soon as possible.

March Cherry Pick deadline for patch releases is the 8th.

Featured PRs

#122717: KEP-4358: Custom Resource Field Selectors

Selectors in Kubernetes have long been a way to limit large API calls like List and Watch, requesting things with only specific labels or similar. In operators this can be very important to reduce memory usage of shared informer caches, as well as generally keeping apiserver load down. Some core objects extended selectors beyond labels, allowing filtering on other fields such as listing Pods based on spec.nodeName. But this set of fields was limited and could feel random if you didn’t know the specific history of the API (e.g. Pods need a node name filter because it’s the main request made by the kubelet). And it wasn’t available at all to custom type. This PR expands the system, allowing each custom type to declare selector-able fields which will be checked and indexed automatically. The declaration uses JSONPath in a very similar way to the additionalPrinterColumns feature:

selectableFields:
- jsonPath: .spec.color
- jsonPath: .spec.size

These can then be used in the API just like any other field selector:

c.List(context.Background(), &redThings, client.MatchingFields{
	"spec.color": "red",
})

As an alpha feature, this is behind the CustomResourceFieldSelectors feature gate.

KEP of the Week

KEP-1610: Container Resource based Autoscaling

For scaling pods based on resource usage, the HPA currently calculates the sum of all the individual container’s resource usage. This is not suitable for workloads where the containers are not related to each other. This KEP proposes that the HPA also provide an option to scale pods based on the resource usages of individual containers in a Pod. The KEP proposes adding a new ContainerResourceMetricSource metric source, with a new Container field, which will be used to identify the container for which the resources should be tracked. When there are multiple containers in a Pod, the individual resource usages of each container can change at different rates. Adding a way to specify the target gives more fine grained control over the scaling.

This KEP is in beta since v1.27 and is planned to graduate to stable in v1.30.

Other Merges

Tunnel kubectl port-forwarding through websockets
Enhanced conflict detection for Service Account and JWT
Create token duration can be zero
Reject empty usernames in OIDC authentication
OpenAPI V2 won’t publish non-matching group-version
New metrics: authorization webhook match conditions, jwt auth latency, watch cache latency
Kubeadm: list nodes needing upgrades, don’t pass duplicate default flags, better upgrade plans, WaitForAllControlPlaneComponents, upgradeConfiguration timeouts, upgradeConfiguration API
Implement strict JWT compact serialization enforcement
Don’t leak discovery documents via the Spec.Service field
Let the container runtime garbage-collect images by tagging them
Client-Go can upgrade subresource fields, and handles cache deletions
Wait for the ProviderID to be available before initializing a node
Don’t panic if nodecondition is nil
Broadcaster logging is now logging level 3
Access mode label for SELinux mounts
AuthorizationConfiguration v1alpha1 is also v1beta1
Kubelet user mapping IDs are configurable
Filter group versions in aggregated API requests
Match condition e2e tests are conformance
Kubelet gets constants from cadvisor

Promotions

Version Updates

Subprojects and Dependency Updates

kubespray to v2.24.1 Set Kubernetes v1.28.6 as the default Kubernetes version.
prometheus to v2.50.1 Fix for broken /metadata API endpoint

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